Thompson v. State of Utah’s Empirical Analysis
170 U.S. 343 · 1898
Citation profile
195 federal appellate · 41 district · 314 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 803 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968), 660 So. 2d 1189 - State Ex Rel. Glover v. State (1995)
195 federal appellate · 41 district · 314 state decisions — followed in 38 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Kring v. State of Missouri · Callan v. Wilson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 803 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * so far as mere modes of procedure are concerned, a party has no more right, in a criminal than in a civil action, to insist that his case shall be disposed of under the law in force when the act to be investigated is charged to have taken place. Remedies must always be under the control of the legislature, and it would create endless confusion in legal proceedings if every case was to be conducted only in accordance with the rules of practice, and heard only by the courts in existence when its facts arose. The legislature may abolish courts and create new ones, and it may prescribe altogether different modes of procedure in its discretion, though it cannot lawfully, we think, in so doing, dispense with any of those substantial protections with which the existing law surrounds the person accused of crime.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a substantial right involved in his liberty.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'in its relation to the offence, or its consequences, alter[ed] the situation of the accused to his disadvantage.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.